Guardians of Valor Volume 3 The Matter

America's guardians came home. The war followed them.

Jack Thompson, a medically retired Army Ranger, thought he had fought his last battle. Then the veterans around him start disappearing into silence, and the official numbers stop adding up. Jack has a cabin in Montana, a massive facility called Sanctuary Ridge built by Damien Blackwell, some high tech biological advancements, and two Belgian Malinois named Rex and Hera, along with a chalkboard wall listing every war America has fought and what each one cost.

When Jack starts counting the dead, he finds a pattern no one was supposed to see. Behind decades of experiments on soldiers, poisoned water, and failed promises stands the Collective. It is a web of power, profit, and artificial intelligence that needs no single villain to destroy a nation. Its machines watch everything. Its "experts" prove whatever they're paid to prove. And behind the machines, something far older is whispering.

Jack and Damien can't win this war alone. He musters a band of wounded warriors, first responders, and faithful outcasts, joined by Alice, an AI unlike any the world has known. They fight with rifles, records, and the truth. They also take up the oldest weapon there is: the full Armor of God.

The deadline is 2030. The battle is for the body, the mind, and the soul of a nation.

Guardians of Valor is a six-volume Christian dystopian thriller series. It blends hard-hitting military action in the spirit of Jack Carr with Orwellian suspense and real spiritual warfare. It's written by Chris Schultz, a medically retired Army Sergeant First Class, former military police investigator, Pentagon Police officer, and DHS Special Agent. The series is grounded in documented military history, and every volume honors those who served and those who never came home.

The Series:
Volume 1: The Last Muster
Volume 2: The Record
Volume 3: The Matter
Volume 4: The Mind
Volume 5: The Spirit
Volume 6: The Watch

"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (Ephesians 6:11)

Douay-Rheims Bible Ephesians 6:12
"For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places."

​​​​​​​The Author also has a Non-Fiction Book "Nothing Here Is A Theory - A Documented History of Chemical and Biological Warfare, IG Farben to 2026" This history is where most of the Authors fictional ideas began.